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Under Russia’s new ‘Foreign Agents Law’, the authorities have carried out thorough inspections of religious organisations, including Muslim associations, Catholic parishes, Pentecostal communities and Jehovah’s Witnesses, all except one, the Russian Orthodox Church, to the complaint of some.

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At 10:35 a.m. a caller reported three suspicious women who identified themselves as Jehovah’s Witnesses. The caller reported the women came by her home on Longmeadow Road and were looking around the home. If located, she wants police to speak with them.

Town officials are heading back to court once again over the Jehovah’s Witnesses church proposed in Merrimack.

Resident Robert Walles, who lives across the street from the 63 Wire Road property approved for a Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall, has filed a lawsuit against the town over the zoning board’s approval of the project.

Last week, an international group of researchers reported the discovery of fossils belonging to a strange population of hominids that lived in southwestern China as recently as 11,500 years ago, at the end of the Pleistocene Epoch. The fossils resemble modern humans in many ways but possess some unusual characteristics. The traits may be evidence that Homo sapiens were more diverse in the past—or a sign that scientists have uncovered a new species.

The leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics arrives in Mexico to find a Church struggling to keep its flock.

When Pope Benedict visits the city of Leon in Mexico’s Catholic heartland this weekend, the growing strength of Protestant groups will be on view just hundreds of meters from where he will meet with bishops and the Catholic faithful.

Despite the Iranian government’s ongoing crackdown of Christians living in the primarily Islamic country, the number of Muslims converting to become Christians is growing at an explosive rate, according to the persecution watchdog group Open Doors USA.

Thousands of people are expect to descend on the Mall in Washington, D.C., on Saturday to celebrate not believing in God. It’s being called a sort of “Woodstock for Atheists,” a chance for atheists to show their power in numbers and change their image.

These cases are not the first examples of non-established or foreign religions struggling to find their place in Russian society. Human rights activists have noted increased pressure by Russian authorities recently targeting non-Orthodox religions and their literature, especially those from abroad. The pressure stems from a vaguely worded law on extremism. In November, the leader of a Jehovah’s Witness group was convicted of extremism for publishing and distributing religious articles “aimed at discrediting other religions.”

Homeowners are used to members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints coming to their doors, but many Catholic door-to-door missionaries are springing up across the country for the purposes of evangelization.

Despite rulings by the European Court of Human Rights in Bayatyan v. Armenia and subsequent judgments, Armenia has not released the 52 Jehovah’s Witnesses who had been charged under the Criminal Code for their conscientious refusal of military service on religious grounds. They have been tried, convicted, and imprisoned; no one is being held in pretrial detention; no one received a suspended sentence.

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“All members of the Regional Building Committee – California 13 are professional skilled tradesman,” Huenink said. In addition to the committee members (who are from Jehovah’s Witness churches from Yuma to the Mexican border and El Centro to Barstow in California) are about 150 local volunteers who help out on the busiest weekend days, he added.

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“I’ve never encountered the practice of destroying religious literature before”

Courts in several places in Russia are also seeking to ban more Jehovah’s Witness publications. Further moves are underway elsewhere to restrict access to religious literature the authorities dislike. Courts in several places in Russia are seeking a ban on named Jehovah’s Witness publications, as prosecutors and their appointed “experts” insist they contain “extremist” sentiments.

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During his tenure, former President Chen himself pardoned some twenty persons imprisoned for their political or religious beliefs, including 19 Jehovah’s Witnesses who rejected military conscription on faith-based grounds.

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Blood transfusion increases the risk of nosocomial infection in trauma patients. Specific patient- and transfusion-related risk factors are largely unknown. In this study, risk factors for developing a bacterial infection after transfusion of red blood cells (RBC) or platelets were determined in a cohort of transfused critically ill trauma patients.

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Both the federal government and the beef industry say “pink slime” is safe for human consumption, but more supermarket chains across the country are saying they won’t sell the ammonia-treated meat.

“From a microbial perspective we’re just not on board with using ammonium hydroxide on our ground beef,” Craig Wilson, vice president of quality assurance and food safety for Costco, told The Daily. “We just won’t do it.”

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Fossil wood from a quarry near the town of Banbury, England, some 80 miles north-west of London, was dated using the carbon-14 method. The ages calculated ranged from 20.7 to 28.8 thousand years old. However, the limestone in which the wood was found was of Jurassic age, of 183 million years. Clearly the dating methods are in conflict.

The 1994 Rwandan genocide, killing an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus, is made even more incomprehensible by the documented participation of many representatives of Rwandan church societies. How could God fearing nuns, and even a bishop, take part in the most cruel crimes against humanity committed on African soil? Even worse, several church societies allegedly were co-responsible for the growing hatred that led to the genocide.

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The proposals, submitted by Dumfries Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses, will be scrutinised by councillors at the planning applications committee. The plan is for a church hall and formation of access and car parking at the land south of Lochside Parish Church, Lochside Road, Dumfries.

The latest of the eight Brooklyn Heights properties put up for sale by the Jehovah’s Witnesses sold this week for roughly $3 million, 13% shy of its asking price. The buyer, Sugar Hill Capital Partners, had scooped up another Witness property nearby earlier this year.

As a method of passing off decayed meat as fresh, meat industries in many countries are treating meat with highly toxic gas. In fact, 70 percent of all beef and chicken within the United States and Canada are subject to the treatment of the poisonous gas known as carbon monoxide.

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TAGANROG, Russia—In an escalation of their attempts to criminalize the activity of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Russian authorities have opened two new criminal cases under Article 282.2 (1) and (2) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which penalizes those organizing or participating in the activities of an extremist organization. The charges carry a hefty fine and imprisonment for up to three years.

The Portable Sign Language Translator (PSLT) could revolutionise the way people who are deaf or hard of hearing communicate, according to computing scientists at Technabling, a spin-out company from Aberdeen University, which developed the pioneering technology.

British MP: ‘Force Churches to Perform Same-Sex Unions or Close Them Down’

Mike Weatherley, the Conservative MP for Hove, wrote a letter Aug. 21 to Prime Minister David Cameron saying, “As long as religious groups can refuse to preside over ceremonies for same-sex couples, there will be inequality.”

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According to a complaint filed with the ombudswoman, on June 1, 2011, two women members of the local branch of Jehovah’s Witnesses were distributing information leaflets on their religious beliefs on a main road in Ayia Napa when they were approached by two policemen.

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